As the 2024 US presidential election reaches its final stretch, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are engaged in a fierce, neck-and-neck battle for the White House, which experts call the “closest race in history.”
Early projections show both candidates capturing key wins as polls close in battleground states. According to initial Associated Press estimates, Republican candidate Trump has taken eight states, while Democratic nominee Harris has secured five.
Trump also claimed victory in South Carolina on Tuesday, winning the state’s nine electoral votes for the third consecutive election. South Carolina last supported a Democratic presidential candidate in 1976, when Jimmy Carter, then governor of neighboring Georgia, defeated President Gerald Ford.